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Do you agree with me? Could you say amen?

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You guys can collect the offering.

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Children, you may be dismissed.

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As they're collecting the offering,

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and the children are being dismissed,

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I have the great honor.

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And I truly do say it. I have the great honor.

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I felt like we've known each other...

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Honestly, I'll say it.

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I felt like we've known each other forever.

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And I walk into the office

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and there sits this young gal with a yellow suitcase.

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And I'm like, man, she's got to be Slavic.

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Do you know why?

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Because Slavic people know how to dress.

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Is there any Slavic roots in you?

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I'm sure there are.

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Somewhere? Because you're very well-dressed.

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And I'm like, there's got to be.

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Maybe great-great-great-grandfather

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was probably a Russian.

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And he probably drove a black Mercedes

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in a suit and everything.

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Man, that's why it's a kindred-like spirit.

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So, Jennifer, it is an honor.

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Can I have you come up here, please?

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Can we give Jennifer a round of applause and honor her?

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Thank you.

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Please.

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We are honored to have you here.

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I am honored to have you here.

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And excited to hear what God is going to do

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through you, in you,

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and for us here and for him.

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So, please.

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Amen. Thank you so much.

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It is an honor

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to be here.

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And I know what you're talking about.

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I think I feel like a kindred spirit

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with this house.

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You know, definitely

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Pastor Mary and I are best friends,

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you know, and

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I'm kidding to know the rest, but

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some of you I know, some of you I don't know.

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It's a pleasure, honestly, to be here.

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It really is.

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And I'm honored to be up here.

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And I am excited

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to reveal Jesus to you tonight.

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Hallelujah.

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Because I'm nothing.

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I mean, nothing.

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I mean, I'm nothing.

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And you

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so confirmed even what I'm talking about.

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So, I wasn't going to say anything,

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but I'm going to say a few things.

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First of all, when we were in worship,

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in between me exalting the king,

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I saw

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an arm and there was a heavy scab

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on it. And I saw a finger

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and the individual

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kept picking the scab.

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And this is several of you in here.

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And the Lord says to you tonight

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that part of the reason that you're

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not getting free is you keep

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self-picking.

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You're more focused on you than you are

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on Jesus.

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And your freedom lies in gazing

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at Him, not in what's wrong

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with you.

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There are also some tonight.

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Can I tell you this in love?

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I'm going to be slightly nicer than

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Prophet Brian was last night.

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I listened to the first part

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before I had to go take a call.

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I listened to him. I said,

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well praise God. He plowed it for me.

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So anything

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I say can't be worse than

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Him, yeah?

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I mean, he called y'all lazy. You know that, right?

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I hope you didn't leave in a spirit of

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offense.

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It's good.

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You know what? Truth

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and love heals us.

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And if there's

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one thing that we want to apologize

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to the American church for

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is making it about

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us instead of Him.

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We've made it way too much about us,

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our feelings,

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our feeling good about us,

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our gifting, us, us, us,

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us, us, us.

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Because it's not us, it's Him. Amen?

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He heals us,

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not to leave us focused on us.

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So we can go, okay, I'm good now.

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Now let me focus on you.

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There are some in the room tonight.

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I'm not even going to look at you. See what I'm doing?

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Because I'm so nice.

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But I'm telling you,

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there is some stubbornness and rebellion

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in here, okay?

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There are some who will not

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want to enter into worship.

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You're mad.

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You got some past hurt stuff that needs

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to be healed. You don't understand.

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And you might even find yourself irritated

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the whole year it gets.

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And the Lord wants to deliver you tonight.

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Don't feel judged by what I'm saying.

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I used to be that. I remember

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when I was a first,

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not a first believer, that didn't even make any sense.

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I'd been saved about five years

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and all my demons weren't out yet.

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And I remember the church

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I was going to had very

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incredible prophetic worship.

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And it would

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tick me off every week.

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It would be in the middle of worship

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and I'd feel this anger begin to come.

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I mean a man I was ticked

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and I would have to go to the ladies room

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and every time the Lord

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would apprehend me

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and he would say go back.

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Now I'm telling you

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if I had not obeyed him

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I would have delayed my own deliverance

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and my own growth in Jesus Christ.

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But if there's one thing I did

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sloppily, but I did it

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it was when I knew he spoke

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I did what he said.

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Come on somebody. I did

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what he said.

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If you were in his

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presence like you could see him

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face to face your heart would be

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broken.

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You would be on the

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floor. You would be

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soaking the carpet because

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your heart would be broken

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because you would be in the presence

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of the one who sacrificed

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everything for

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you.

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The answer

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to stubbornness

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and rebellion is surrender.

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When

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he talked about reputation

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in that little bit about losing

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sight of a reputation I went okay

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fine.

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So my daughter calls me this morning

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so I'm getting ready.

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She says mom, man

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somebody put some scathing stuff about

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you and the church up.

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And I said honey I

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and she began to tell me it was good

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I mean they were

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it was vitriol like

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I have not heard in some time

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it was some bona

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fide hatred amen

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I mean they just tore me

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up any way they could.

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They said they needed special trauma

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counseling from coming to the church

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I know who they are and actually I needed the

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trauma counseling but they said

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and then they said in order to hurt

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me they said and

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she's anti LGBTQ

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yes

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I'm not anti the people

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when I help them because I was a lesbian

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but I'm anti the agenda

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hallelujah yes if you really want to hurt me

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you're gonna have to try something else amen

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but I went through

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what I went through because I've been in the season

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of persecution heavily

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for not like in other

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countries okay I would

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no this isn't life or death

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it's mental warfare it jacks

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with your head and that's pretty good amen

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but that's been going

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on for the last year it's just been

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It's a non-stop, and it's a new level of... who really cares?

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Okay, hate on me, yo.

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Say I suck. Okay, fine, whatever.

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Say whatever you want. Does it really matter?

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So I was talking to the Lord because I was going to get my hair done.

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Because I knew he'd be looking.

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Measuring up my outfit, see if I look Russian enough.

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So while I'm on my way to the hairdresser,

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I'm talking to Jesus.

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And I said, Jesus, you know.

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And I began to tell him.

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I said, Father Jesus, Holy Spirit,

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because I have a relationship with all three.

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I said, praise God that there's something I'm doing

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that's worthy of persecution.

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Thank God there's something I'm standing for,

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something I'm saying that is so provoking darkness

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that they got a hate on me in public.

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Listen, we have a public thread on Facebook up there

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that I can't stand because it's so carnal and nasty.

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Every time somebody anonymous asks for a good church,

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there are people who have been so blessed in touch

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they always want to mention us.

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And it always draws attention.

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And I'm like, please don't mention us.

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I believe in the Holy Spirit's ability to guide people

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if they need to come.

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Leave me alone.

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But it's not about us and it really doesn't matter.

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So I want you to know and be okay with me

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that by the time I was done, I was laughing.

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I was laughing and I was blessing them

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and I was thanking them for adding to my reward in heaven.

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Blessed are those who are persecuted

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for what kind of sake?

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For righteousness sake.

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It's not about perfection.

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It is about remaining in Christ, amen?

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Hallelujah.

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So if I can do it...

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Now, I want to apologize for you

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the fact that we have to talk about the Laodicean church

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because we should never even have to talk about it.

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True.

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Shouldn't have to be in the Bible.

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Shouldn't have to be anything we look at

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or talk about or study,

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but the Lord knew what it was going to look like

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towards the end.

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Now, I don't know about y'all,

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but I believe we are in that.

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We've been in the end since Jesus resurrected,

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but I believe we are at the end of the end.

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In fact, I believe that we are right there

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at the end of the church age

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crossing over into the millennium.

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You might disagree.

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I love you anyway, amen?

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But that's where I believe we are right now.

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I also believe that we have entered the time

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of righteous rule in this country

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and even in the church.

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I believe that God has been taking down

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those who are unrighteous and unholy

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and been living in darkness and habitual

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secret sin, and he is now beginning

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to position those who really

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make it all about Jesus.

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And they don't care where they're positioned

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because it doesn't matter.

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It's just all about Jesus, amen?

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Okay, I want to cite right now.

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Who knows the great late Dr. Chuck Missler?

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Anybody know him?

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What? This is a charismatic church.

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Come on, just if you don't be a frayed girlfriend,

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you know him, raise your hand.

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Okay, well, Dr. Chuck Missler

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has passed on into glory,

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and it's not that I agreed with everything,

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but he was an awesome man of God.

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And man, was he a good Bible teacher.

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And the way he used to talk about the seven letters,

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I know we're on the church of Leah to see it tonight,

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but the way he used to talk about the seven letters

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to the churches, as he said, it's interesting

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because God designed it.

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So on one hand, from the time

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of the resurrection of Christ, come on,

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to the time where, and now,

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you can take all seven and lay them across history

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and see in succession

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different attributes of those churches

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in a linear fashion at the same time,

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because God is amazing,

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you could see any of the seven

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at any time in different places in the world.

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Come on, somebody.

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I was talking to my son and loved the other day,

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and I said, you know what?

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It is impossible that a man

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wrote the Bible.

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It's impossible.

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And if you're a skeptic on that,

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then I challenge you to go start in Genesis,

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make your way through to Revelation,

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look at the prophecy that's been fulfilled,

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look at the layers of mystery

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and understanding in Revelation,

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and you will be humbly repenting by the end, amen?

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A man could not have written this Bible,

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but there's inconsistencies.

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No, there's not.

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What you think is an inconsistency

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is different views on the same thing,

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seeing it from different angles.

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My life, come on, somebody,

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my life is staked, right here.

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This is where my life is staked, right here.

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Right here.

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Let's go into the word.

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So when I was listening to brother Brian,

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who's one of my best friends,

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next to Mary,

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we were talking a little bit yesterday

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before he came and then, like I said,

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I got to hear what he said.

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And when I heard how it came out,

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I started laughing because I thought,

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gee, that really, it kind of sets the tone

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for where the Lord was having me start, okay?

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And my...

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he remember when he said he was starting

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talking about leadership and building,

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like he can't help but talk and start there?

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Which is true, that's totally him.

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It's me, too, actually.

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But he started talking about leadership

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and how we don't understand leadership

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and all that, and he is so right.

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Because there's such a strong independent spirit

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in the church.

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Nobody here likes to be told what to do.

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And if you don't like to be told what to do,

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you will not be told what to do.

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The Holy Spirit will give intel

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to anybody who wants to hear it.

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He will lead you, he will guide you,

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he will show you the way.

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But if you don't want to hear it,

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he'll just sit there quietly and wait.

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Faith, come on.

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Faith is about

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following.

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You don't need faith if you're the one driving.

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You need faith to follow.

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Many of us start off in faith

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because we don't know what we're doing.

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And then as my husband says,

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we get just a little bit of Christianity.

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He says, just a little bit of karate will get you killed.

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You know two moves, and you're like,

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what?

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Because you never passed that elementary class, amen?

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Same thing with Christianity, yo.

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We can get to the place where I've been a Christian

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for 15 years.

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I know.

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No, you don't.

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You're about to find out, too.

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Because the moment you exalt yourself,

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you go on a face plant down.

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That's what's going to happen.

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This is the absolute truth.

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Faith is to follow.

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It takes faith to follow.

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The whole purpose of faith is that you can follow.

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Because who's leading, y'all?

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Jesus, Holy Ghost.

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Even you can say father, too.

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I tell you what, if any of the three speak,

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I'm just going to do it, amen? Fair enough?

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So you're all right.

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We need faith in order to follow.

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And why am I bringing this up?

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Because we're talking about the church of Laodicea.

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And Laodicea means the rule of the people.

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The rule of the people.

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All right?

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So as soon as you start talking about the rule of the people,

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you have got different attributes of humanism.

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You're back at Genesis 3.

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You're back. Did God really say?

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Are you sure God said that?

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See, when we begin to think for ourselves,

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pretty soon we end up worshiping ourselves.

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And this is where the church of Laodicea came to.

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We should not be having this discussion.

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We shouldn't have to talk about it.

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Because when you've met him...

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Why on earth would you ever go back?

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I'm not staying on my testimony,

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because many of you have heard it.

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But I'm going to tell you one thing.

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This little girl, sex addict, alcoholic,

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addict, depressed, clinically, blah, blah, blah, blah.

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The day that I got saved.

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I mean, I got saved.

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The day I said yes to Jesus Christ,

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I had one thought go through my head.

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The first one was, whoa.

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Because I literally felt the weight of my sin lift off.

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I felt that you don't need something like that

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in your salvation.

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But the Lord knows what we all need in that moment.

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And I was about to go into a seriously dark environment,

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and he knew I needed something to look back to.

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But anyway, whatever.

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So it... I feel it go.

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And then I had this thought.

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I said, I don't deserve this.

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Which is true.

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I said, other people deserve it.

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Which is not true.

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But who knows my theology wasn't correct yet.

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But the one thing I knew in that moment

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that has kept me tethered

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to the one who died and rose for me.

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Is that I did not.

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And I do not deserve it.

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Humility is something you never want to lose sight of.

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I don't know how long I've been a believer now.

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Like 26 years or something.

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I don't know.

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Thank you for calling me young.

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That really stood out to me, and I was blessed.

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But a believer for 26 years or whatever.

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And I've been discipled.

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And yes, I lead a church.

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And I do all this.

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And now that I know so much about the Word.

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I mean, my Bible is so marked up

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because I read so much and I know so much.

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And blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

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I know nothing.

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I have nothing outside of Christ.

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And if I didn't really believe that,

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ask me how fast I would set the church on fire

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and be out and work someplace

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where it's not constant warfare and hammering.

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For real, I would love just to raise dogs.

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I mean, if I could do something else,

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I would have one of every breed

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and spend time with each and every one of them all day.

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Haley knows.

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But this is about Christ.

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And here I am 26 years away.

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Well, yeah, kind of.

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And I still don't deserve it.

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It was His gift for me.

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Never lose sight of the greatest gift

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you will ever have.

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It's not your spouse.

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It's not your children.

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Y'all, it ain't your health.

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I don't care if you were laid up

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with casts on mental illness all jacked up.

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If you know Jesus Christ and you die,

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you go to be with Him.

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Don't ever forget the greatest thing that you have.

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And your possession is faith in Christ.

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They forgot in the church of Lea to see it.

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That's a problem.

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They forgot.

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Y'all, okay, I'm not mad.

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I get passionate.

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I'm really nice.

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Let's read the word.

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Revelation chapter 3 verse 14.

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Into the angel of the church

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of the Laodiceans, right.

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These things says the amen.

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The faithful and true witness.

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The beginning of the creation of God.

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I know your works that you were neither cold nor hot.

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I could wish you were cold or hot.

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So then because you were lukewarm

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and neither cold nor hot,

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I will vomit you out of my mouth.

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Is that what your Bible says?

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Who wants to take the first stab

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at twisting the scripture for us?

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Make it a little softer.

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Maybe he just meant dribble you out of his mouth.

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Y'all okay?

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The healthiest thing in the world

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is to read the Bible for exactly what it says.

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And compare scripture to scripture,

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not your opinion, not your fear.

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It's okay because he's got you.

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But let's be honest, y'all.

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17.

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Because you say I am rich

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and have become wealthy

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and have need of nothing

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and do not know that you are wretched,

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miserable, poor, blind and naked,

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I counsel you to buy from me gold

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refined in the fire

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that you may be rich

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and white garments that you may be clothed,

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that the shame of your nakedness

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may not be revealed

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and anoint your eyes

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with eye-solve that you may see

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as many as I love, I rebuke and chase sin.

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I'm not going to name names,

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but if you're in a church that never talks about sin,

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that's hate.

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That's hate, man.

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Love tells the truth,

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so you at least have a choice.

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As many as I love, I rebuke and I chase sin.

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Therefore, be zealous and repent.

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He's like, quit playing, let's go.

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Come on now.

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Behold, I stand at the door and knock.

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If anyone hears my voice

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and opens the door, I will come into him

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and dine with him and he with me.

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To him who overcomes,

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I will grant to sit with me on my throne

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as I also overcame

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and sat down with my father on his throne.

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He who has an ear,

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let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.

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So now let's just go back

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and break it down a little bit, amen?

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One of my favorite things to do

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is operate in the gift of prophetic teacher.

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It's one of my favorite things

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because the word of God is life.

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And the Holy Spirit,

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before I read the Bible, I say,

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Holy Spirit, show me the things I don't know.

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Help me to understand Jesus.

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Help me to understand the living word of God.

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And he does, he's faithful.

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And when I get done,

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even the live Bible studies I do,

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I promise you, Hailey is my camera person.

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How many times when we're done,

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do I go, man, the Holy Spirit's amazing?

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That was incredible. I didn't even know that.

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He just spoke in the middle.

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He is right there with us.

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Oh my goodness, we miss out on so much

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because we forget about our very best friend,

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the Holy Spirit.

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The Holy Spirit?

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He'll remind you to pay your bills?

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He does me?

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The Holy Spirit literally cares

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about every single thing in your life.

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Can I say something too?

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Because a lot of y'all are nodding your heads

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and I appreciate that.

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It's better to nod this way than...

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We know that, but we don't know that.

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We know it, but we don't know it

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because if we know it, we access it.

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Does that make sense?

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Can I challenge you tonight

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to not just knowing, but take the time

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and know him, talk to him,

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wait for him to speak,

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develop a new discipline

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of you and Holy Ghost every day?

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Oh, he's so faithful.

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Let's go back to the beginning.

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In the angel of the church of the Laodiceans,

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to the angel of the church.

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So each one of the letters,

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in case you don't know this,

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when we're talking about the seven letters,

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each one of them gives an introduction

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and it introduces them

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according to some good things they've done

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and then some things that aren't so good.

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There's only two churches out of the seven

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that did not have a correction.

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And if I could pick any church,

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I want to be the church of Philadelphia.

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If you don't know why, go read it.

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That's the Holy Ghost, amen.

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But everybody else, there is some good things

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and then not so good things.

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Actually, in a couple, there's nothing good.

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These guys don't have anything good.

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And then Jesus is introduced,

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but it's certain aspects of Jesus.

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So Jesus introduces himself

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according to the aspects of him

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that they need to become aware of the most.

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Does that make sense?

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I can tell you as somebody who preaches

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almost every week of the year

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that I can give one message

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and people will all hear it very differently

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because it's heard according to

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what their level of revelation is

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and what God is also speaking to them

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and what they need to know.

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It's personal, amen?

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Okay.

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And I want to challenge us tonight

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because hopefully we don't find ourselves

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in this letter,

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but let's assume we're in the letter.

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Let's assume that we need some work done.

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There's nothing wrong with that.

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Well, that seems super negative.

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No, you're assuming that you need some work done.

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I don't know about you, but I have not arrived.

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I have not arrived.

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I was sitting there the night

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just repenting and repenting and repenting.

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Yeah, my son-in-love knows.

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I just...

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I felt like I had gotten into this place

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and I came off wrong

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and I sounded so self-righteous.

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I mean, I'm just sobbing in the bathtub.

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Jesus, I'm so sorry.

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Because I'm sensitive to him.

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And when I begin to pick up what's not him,

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it bothers me.

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My heart's broken

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because I want to display his character, amen?

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Yeah, and I screw up.

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Do y'all?

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You don't need to.

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And hopefully I'll quit.

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Okay, so the angel of the church

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of the Laodiceans, right?

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These things says the amen.

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You know what amen means?

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It means, so be it.

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Just imagine you're getting a letter from Jesus.

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And it says this.

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It says, these things says the...

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Amen.

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These things says the so be it.

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What?

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These things...

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What he's saying is, it's already in motion.

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This is it maybe.

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This is already in motion.

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So be it.

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Did you know that Jesus doesn't say something

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until the decision has already been made?

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You know why it's the amen?

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Because God has already ruled on

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what they're dealing with.

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So be it.

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Come on somebody.

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They're not waiting on trial.

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The trial already happened.

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So be it.

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Isn't this getting exciting?

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Makes the word fun.

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These things says the amen.

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The faithful and true witness.

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The beginning of the creation of God.

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What is Jesus wanting them to know?

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He's saying, first of all, I'm faithful.

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I've never changed.

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Nothing has changed.

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I'm having to point out that I'm faithful

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because you're not.

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I'm faithful.

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You're not faithful, but know that I am faithful.

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I have not changed.

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So any changing, it's going to be in my direction.

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Y'all with me?

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Can you feel the holiness on this?

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I don't know about you, but I start reading that letter.

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I'd be like, yes, sir.

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My ears would grow.

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My mouth would shrink.

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The faithful and what?

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True witness. Come on.

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The one who came, why did Jesus come?

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I was on it with my church this last year.

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What are the reasons that Jesus came?

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We're going to say, he came to save us.

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Well, yes, but that's not what he said.

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He said, I came to witness to the truth

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and to destroy the what?

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What are the works of darkness?

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They lies.

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I came to witness to the truth

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and destroy the works of darkness.

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So right now we know he's saying, so be it.

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It's in motion, but know this.

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I am faithful and I'm the true witness.

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I'm the one who's seen the Father.

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I'm the one who lived as a man

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and ascended back up into heaven.

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I'm the true witness.

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There's no comparison.

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Nobody can compete with what I have seen

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and what I know.

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He's trustworthy.

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That's what he's saying.

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The beginning of the creation of God.

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Why would he be saying that?

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He's saying, you think you know something.

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But I want to remind you that I have been there

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since the very beginning.

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Yeah?

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So like this precious individual

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who's shouting at me online,

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tell me I'm anti-LGBT, blah, blah, blah.

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You know why I'm anti that?

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Because it ain't God.

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It's never been God.

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It's never gonna be God.

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And since I've been delivered to that devil,

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I will never believe it's God.

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I don't believe I was born that way.

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I don't believe you were born that way.

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It's called perversion.

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And you can be delivered.

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It's not psychology.

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Maybe if I think hard enough, I'll be straight.

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Can I tell you something?

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Your image in Christ is as heterosexual as it comes.

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It's about coming into the image.

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This is what it comes down to, amen?

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So Jesus is saying, you've tried to twist it.

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You've tried to make this okay.

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You've brought your philosophy and your human wisdom

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into the church.

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You've brought a perversion.

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You've brought a skewed image.

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And you quit upholding my witness,

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my word, as the number one.

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And you begin to twist it and create your own design.

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So let me just remind you, he's telling me,

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I have been there since the beginning.

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Now, if you know the Bible, you know that Jesus created

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everything with the Holy Spirit.

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Talks about the Godhead in Genesis, amen?

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Let's keep going.

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I know your works that you are neither cold nor hot.

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I wish you were cold or hot.

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So then because you are lukewarm and neither cold nor hot,

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I will vomit you out of my mouth.

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Now, there have been a lot of discussion

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about what is it to be hot or cold.

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And the truth is, if you go study this out,

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that very church, there really was water that ran by

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that they would draw from that was lukewarm.

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It started off a certain way.

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I can't even remember now if it was hot or cold,

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but way up, you know, head stream.

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But by the time it got to them, it was lukewarm.

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The Lord will speak to us using natural things, amen?

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But when we say hot or cold,

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don't get focused on hot or cold.

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What he's saying is, you are indifferent.

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There's a little bit of that in the room tonight.

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You're indifferent.

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I go with it.

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Maybe not go with it.

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I don't really care.

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Have you ever met somebody like that?

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Where would you like to go eat?

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I don't know.

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I don't care.

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You don't ever care.

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Could you care tonight?

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I don't care.

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Do you ever have a thought or opinion?

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Do you have a desire?

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Are you alive?

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Indifference is sort of annoying.

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Switzerland.

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Over in your neck of the woods, sir.

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Switzerland.

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A little bit of annoyance there.

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We don't want to get involved.

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Okay, so you stand for nothing.

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Is that what you're saying?

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Indifference is disgusting to God.

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It's disgusting.

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Because it means you don't believe.

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If you are indifferent, you are in unbelief.

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You are in doubt.

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You don't believe him.

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You doubt him.

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What is unbelief?

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Unbelief is the greatest sin any of us could find ourselves in.

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Because unbelief quits walking in faith for one

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and quits accessing God.

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Unbelief is a threat to us.

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We're going to end up on this note.

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I got a powerful illustration for you.

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It made me cry.

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Maybe it will make you cry.

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But they are indifferent to Jesus.

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This is a church.

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Y'all remember this is a church.

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Imagine this church was not going to happen.

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But imagine all of a sudden

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the pastors get a letter from Jesus.

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He's like, y'all don't even care anymore.

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It's like, church again.

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Gotta show up again.

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Oh, please excuse us.

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Please excuse us for upholding the word that says

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come and assemble yourselves together.

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Please, so sorry.

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So sorry for being faithful every week,

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preaching every week,

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having all kinds of things we can do,

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trying to draw the body of...

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So sorry.

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You see what I'm talking about?

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Indifference.

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The fire's out, y'all.

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These guys are in so much trouble.

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Literally you should read this letter like this.

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It's breathtaking.

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Because Jesus is saying this.

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He's saying, you're indifferent.

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I'm about to spit you out of my mouth.

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I remember when I was a very young believer

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and I was visiting a church years ago.

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And I was in worship and I'm a seer.

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So I'm in worship and all of a sudden

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I get this image.

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And I went, it startled me.

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And I was standing there.

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It's like I could see through.

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And I saw the side of Jesus' face.

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And I saw people on his tongue.

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And he was about to spit them out.

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I wasn't even familiar.

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I wouldn't even study in the world all that much.

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It scared me.

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I'm like, what in the world does that mean?

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Jesus loves us.

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But when we get to a place where we're self-dilusional,

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like God's cool with whatever XYZ,

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he's going to come strong in order to save us.

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He's not saying all this stuff because he's a jerk.

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How are we doing with the actual truth?

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Y'all okay?

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Should I stop and tell you much God loves you for five minutes?

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No.

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He does.

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That's equally true, yo.

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Or he wouldn't be writing this letter.

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I'm not even saying y'all are the church of Laodicea,

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but we always want to read and say,

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Lord, examine me, sir.

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In fact, let me examine me.

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Usually we like to give ourselves the best grade.

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Hopefully it is good.

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Okay, keep going.

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He says, I will vomit you out of my mouth

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because you say I am what?

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Rich have become wealthy

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and have what?

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I no longer need you, Jesus.

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I no longer need you, Jesus.

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It's the scariest thing I can imagine.

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I've used you to get to where I am.

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I don't need you anymore.

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I know as much about you as I could know

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or would need to know.

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I'm good.

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I'm wealthy now, I'm rich.

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I don't even have to exercise faith

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because anything I want is already available to me.

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There's nothing wrong with being rich, y'all.

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It's not money, it's not riches.

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It's when you begin to see them as your source

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and your provision,

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and you don't need Jesus.

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We need to understand you don't need Jesus

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to pay your bills.

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You need Jesus because your soul needs saving.

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We've lost sight of that.

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We don't understand eternities like for real.

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It's like eternity.

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Right?

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Yeah.

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In forever's, you're correct, whoever said that there.

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Correct about forever,

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but forever seems too brief to be forever.

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You know what I'm saying?

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It's like a word that's kind of finite.

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And just infinite in our soul,

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our mind, will and emotions

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have to have a destination

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because nothing actually breaks down in the spirit.

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Nothing actually breaks down.

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The truth is, everything continues on in some form.

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That's right.

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Everything.

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What am I trying to get at tonight?

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We want to prize our faith.

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We want to prize the condition.

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Come on, somebody.

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The condition of our soul

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more than all of the other things

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that have to do in this world.

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There's not a day we wake up

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that we should not say,

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my soul has been saved.

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I thank you, Jesus.

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I thank you that I get to know you.

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I don't have to run around and do a special dance.

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I don't have to build an altar and kill something.

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I get to know you.

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I get to talk to you whenever I want.

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I don't have to go to the church.

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You know, we can get so religious.

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I've had people say they feel like

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they can't talk to God unless they go to a church.

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A church is a building.

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The ecclesia is the church.

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We're the body of Christ.

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You can talk to him anytime.

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I talk to him most of the time

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while I'm doing dishes

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and just mundane household things.

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I'm consulting him, listening to him.

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It's a relationship, amen.

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And he's got my soul.

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And I love him more than anybody,

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including you, including my husband,

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including my children, including the church,

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including my dogs.

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I love Jesus the very most.

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And I'm not saying that I mean that.

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I mean that.

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Because he's my prize.

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Clearly there's steam coming off my head.

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I'm at a certain age where steam comes off at times.

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Some of you ladies know.

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Some of y'all don't know yet,

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but we can pray for you.

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You can speed it up.

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What do you think, Pastor Mary?

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You have need of nothing

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and you don't know that your wretched,

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miserable, poor, blind and naked.

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What is he saying there?

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He's saying that you are no longer in me.

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You've stepped outside of me.

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You know how Paul, the apostle, my favorite apostle,

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he says things like, you got to put on Christ?

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What is he saying?

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He's like, come back into him.

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If I'm going through a special warfare or whatever,

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I love to visually picture myself

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standing inside of Christ.

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That I'm in him, literally.

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That's how I like to picture it.

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I'm like, man, you're my defender.

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You're my warrior. You're my king.

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You're my protector. You're my provider.

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Hallelujah!

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You're my victor.

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And I hide in him.

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I've been singing for days.

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I need thee, oh, I need thee.

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Every hour I need thee.

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How does it go?

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My one defense, your righteousness.

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I got that off tune.

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But who cares?

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Oh, Lord, how I need thee.

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What?

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My defense is his righteousness.

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Come on.

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I need him.

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Oh, I need him.

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Every hour I need him.

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I love needing him.

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I love being helpless.

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I don't want to be strong.

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I want to be weak.

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So his strength is perfected in my life.

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I don't need to know everything.

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I don't have to solve all your problems.

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I'm not trying to be the answer.

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He is relish in it.

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Yeah.

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Are y'all okay?

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Am I going too long?

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You okay?

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Okay.

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So, he says this,

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I counsel you to buy from me

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gold refined in the fire

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that you may be rich

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and white garments that you may be clothed

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that the shame of your nakedness

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may not be revealed

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and that your eyes...

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I'm anoint your eyes with eye salve

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that you may see.

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What is he actually talking about?

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We're going to go over there in a second,

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but the Lord brought me the parallel

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of 1 Corinthians chapter 3.

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So he's saying,

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I counsel you.

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You really screwed it up, y'all,

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but I'm giving you the wisdom you need.

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Yay!

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He doesn't just come and say,

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hey, you're going to hell.

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He says, here's the issue

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and here's what I'm prepared to do

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and here's what can happen.

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That's fair, isn't it?

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Amen. Great attitude.

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So he says, I counsel you

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buy from me gold refined in the fire.

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In other words,

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truth,

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understanding,

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revelation,

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and wisdom.

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It's already been refined because it's his.

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It's already been tested.

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You know, Jesus passed the test, right?

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He passed the test.

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And it's not because he didn't go get drunk at the bar.

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It's not because he didn't sleep around.

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All that stuff is not the bigger issue.

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That's the manifestation of the real issue,

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which is offense in our hearts.

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Yeah, that's good.

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First sin after Adam and Eve.

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Cain and Abel.

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And the Lord warned him.

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He warned Cain. He said, you better be careful.

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Because sin is crouching at your door

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and its desire is for you.

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That word there in the Hebrew is sin.

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It's offense, excuse me. It's offense.

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Offense is your enemy.

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Offense with God, offense with yourself,

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offense with everybody else.

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Offense brings a separation.

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Amen.

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So we need to come back into the place

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where we receive his counsel,

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his word, his understanding.

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Just believe him.

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If you don't understand something, that's okay.

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Ask him questions. Get in the word

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and believe the word.

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If the Lord said that Jonah was swallowed by a fish,

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he was swallowed by a fish.

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If the Lord says,

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locusts are going to be crawling around,

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and I don't plan to be here,

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but he says locusts are going to be crawling around

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and they have ugly little...

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they have stingers and ugly horse faces

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and, you know, heinous little things.

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Y'all, what's going to happen?

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That's right.

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Well, it's a helicopter.

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I don't doubt there'll be helicopters there,

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but I think there's going to be a bug.

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Look, we're so earthly minded.

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We don't understand the thing of the heavenlies.

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You do know he's got creatures around his throne

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like covered in eyes and stuff, right?

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If you read your Bible,

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you'll be like, what? This is a sci-fi show for real.

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Believe the Word.

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Quit allowing humanism in this stinking culture

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to pick apart the powerful,

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life-giving truth of the Word of God.

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Do not be ashamed of this gospel.

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Amen indeed.

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Let's go over, y'all, to 1 Corinthians chapter 3.

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I'm hearing a song right now.

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Oh, here it goes. I'm going to sing it.

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It's not going to be cute, but I'm going to sing it.

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Set a fire down in my soul

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that I can't contain, that I can't control.

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I want more of you, God.

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I want more of you, God.

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I'm feeling that right now.

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You feeling it?

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So, this is a scary one, but it's so good.

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Y'all okay? Just know Jesus loves you.

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He's got you.

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He loves you and he's got you,

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but y'all know he ain't playing.

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He ain't playing, y'all.

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He came as a lion. He's coming back,

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roaring like a lion.

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Amen? And he's given us all the answers

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to the test now.

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If you want to be healthy,

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read the Word of God through the lens of eternity.

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This is how I do.

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I go all the way to the end, what the expectation is,

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and then I backwards engineer it.

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What would that look like in order to end up there?

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See how that works? Oh, it works.

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It's really, really good.

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So when I read this, I'm like,

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okay, I don't want to get to the place where I don't need him.

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Maybe I should incorporate something like telling him daily,

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oh man, I need you, God.

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And that's what I do. I'm being serious.

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If you come up here and read my journal, don't look at it.

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But if you were, I've got the date.

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And then it's always a variety of good morning,

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my wonderful, amazing, holy, faithful, kind, generous.

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Good, good, good.

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Father, Lord Jesus Christ and Holy Spirit,

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I love you. I adore you. I need you.

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I require you.

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This is how I do with him every day.

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Because it's the truth.

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It's the truth. It's what I need to know.

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I'm never outgrowing, okay? Amen, amen, amen.

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Okay, three.

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So let me give you the background,

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because I don't want to have to start at the very beginning,

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but essentially Paul is irritated, which happened a lot.

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And he's irritated because the people are getting cornered

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and they're like, well, I was baptized by Apollos.

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Who are you baptized by?

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I was baptized by Paul.

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Well, I don't know.

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And it's so stupid.

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I mean, like, are you offended with me?

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It's like, in a good way.

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It's stupid. The stupid, stupid things we do.

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So Paul, he doesn't like this.

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Let's start in verse five.

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Who then is Paul?

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And who is Apollos but ministers through whom you believed

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as the Lord gave to each one?

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I planted Apollos watered,

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but God gave the increase.

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Y'all see that? Who gave the increase?

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I think the church of Laodicea missed that.

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Pretty sure they took credit for the increase.

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So then neither he who plants is anything,

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nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase.

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We don't like that text in America.

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You're not anything.

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Somebody told me I'm a prophet to the nations.

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You're nothing.

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I'm going to steal from what's his name, Kevin Leal.

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He says, if what I say offends you,

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he says, no, if you, how does he say it?

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Whatever offends you reveals you.

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It's true.

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So if I'm saying something, it's pricking you.

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Let me tell you what happened.

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Somewhere, you're precious, okay?

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I'm not being mean, but somewhere your identity

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and your value got attached to what you do

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instead of who you are in him.

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So if we start getting uncomfortable

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when those kind of things come up,

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it means we need it and we want to transfer that

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to no, no, I don't need that.

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I need him.

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You with me?

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It's true.

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And you know what, everybody has to go through that.

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I had to go through it.

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I had to die to ego and all that stuff.

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Quick, funny story, lighten it up

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since some of y'all are too serious,

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but years ago I was in a meeting

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and I had just heard this great word

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about what I was going to do and preaching and whatnot.

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And so I was fantasizing about what I was going to wear.

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Oh, yeah.

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And at the tie, oh, yeah, it's my Russian roots.

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It's my Russian roots.

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But I was fantasizing about what I would wear

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and at the time I had a role model

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and I'm not going to say their name

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because they're so far off that pray for them

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even though you don't know who they are.

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So anyway, I was thinking,

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yeah, I think I'll wear that.

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Probably be on stage with her one day.

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Meeting starts.

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Blah, blah, blah, prayer, blah, blah, blah.

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There goes the spirit of Python.

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I didn't know Christians could have demons,

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but I had a snake.

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I laid there in shock.

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I went from fantasizing about my worldwide tour

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to deliverance on the floor in front of everyone.

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Who knows that God has the best sense of humor?

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Hallelujah.

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I'm somebody because I'm his.

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But I'm nobody.

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I'm somebody because I'm his,

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but I'm nobody.

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Amen.

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I'm not, believe it or not, I am not addicted to ministry.

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I love preaching, but I'm not addicted to...

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I told my... I don't know somebody.

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I said, I think it was the first week of sabbatical

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because I'm actually off sabbatical

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talking to you right now.

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And I watched because I had some folks

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preaching for me the first Sunday.

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They have not done it before,

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so I wanted to see how they're doing.

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They did fantastic.

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But as they start doing it, I'm like on fire.

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I'm like, ooh, I want to preach.

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And it's not about the church.

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It's, I love talking about Jesus.

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I love the truth.

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That's like, I got to tell somebody.

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I could never just be a stay-at-home whatever.

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I was going to say mom, but my daughter is now grown.

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I'm not even a stay-at-home dog mom.

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It's like, I have to tell somebody about Jesus

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because it's in me. You understand?

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But that's not the same thing

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as being addicted to a position.

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Okay, good. We got that cleared up.

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So anyway, Paul, he's talking about how we're nothing

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and we need to be okay with that.

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You're something, you're special to him.

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You're a daughter. You're a son.

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But as far as glory, we're nothing.

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We're here to bring him the glory.

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Hallelujah. Let's keep going.

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According to verse 10, according...

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No, sorry, nine.

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For we are God's fellow workers.

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You are God's field.

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You are God's building.

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According to the grace of God,

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which was given to me as a wise master builder,

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I have laid the foundation

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and another builds on it.

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But let each one take heed

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how he builds on it.

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This is instruction for me.

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It's instruction for you.

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How are you doing in your construction?

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Yeah.

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Have you been building on your foundation,

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which is Christ?

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What do the walls look like?

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Let's pay...

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What's our construction look like?

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Are we looking down going, uh-oh, it was Christ,

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but now it's kind of built on

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pastor so-and-so who's online.

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Now it's kind of starting to look like

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deliverance so-and-so who's online

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or whatever. I'm just done matter.

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We want to make sure that we look down

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and go, oh, this is straight up Jesus

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because only Jesus can uphold it all the way.

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Amen.

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And praise God for the different voices

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in the body of Christ. Amen.

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We all have a job to do.

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For no other foundation

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can anyone lay

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than that which is laid, which is

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Jesus Christ.

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Anything else is a lie.

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It is a thief and a robber.

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Now if anyone builds on this foundation

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with gold, silver,

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precious stones, wood,

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hay, straw, each one

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's work will become

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clear for the

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day. This is the day of the Lord

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will declare it because

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it will be revealed by what?

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Fire. And the fire

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will test each one's work

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of what sort it is. So guess

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what's not going to burn that day?

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God's word's not going to burn

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no. Anything that he

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asked us to do that we did

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is not going to burn.

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Now I know I got some gold in my life

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and you know what? I probably have some

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straw in there too.

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It's always good to say

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Lord, where's the straw?

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Have I been using straw

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to build? And I have.

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And if so, I just repent.

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Clean that sucker up, prune me Lord.

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And he does.

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But all of us

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we're going to have that day where

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there's a fire.

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And anything that isn't according

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to his wisdom, his way, etc.

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it is going to burn.

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What did Jesus say

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to the church of Laodicea?

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He says, I counsel you

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to what? Buy from me

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gold that has been

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refined in the

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fire.

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Then he talks

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about the white garment

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which is our robe

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of righteousness. The Bible

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says that we can defile our garment.

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You want to know how to defile your garment?

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It's the real offense.

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Because offense creates

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separation and God's all about unity

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and it brings bitterness.

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Some of you right now in here

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there's a

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level of forgiveness that needs to come

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into your life.

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That you're stuck and you've been

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stuck because you're having

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a hard time forgiving. You don't understand

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the real purpose of it.

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God wants to heal you

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from that.

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Forgiveness is a legal decision.

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It's not an emotion.

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It's a legality in the spirit realm.

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Everything is legal.

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And it says, I untether

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myself from darkness. When you

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forgive, you untether yourself from darkness.

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Isn't that incredible?

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So on that day

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it will be revealed by fire

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and the fire will test each one's word

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of what sort it is. We're almost done.

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Y'all hang in there. I can feel it starting to...

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If anyone's work which has been built

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on endures, he will receive

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a reward. Because Jesus

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is all about rewarding himself.

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Anything

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that's of him is getting a reward because

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all of that comes back to him.

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We're going to get to cast our

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crowns. Any crowns that we get, we get

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to give it right back to him. Isn't that awesome?

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Because we know when we're truly

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his and we surrender, we know it's

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all his. He deserves

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it all.

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He says,

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if anyone's work is

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burned, he will suffer

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loss, but he himself will be

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saved, yet so as

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through fire.

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I don't know about you, but I don't want to get up there

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and have barely made it.

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I don't want to get up there

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and everything I think I've done

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is gone.

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If anyone defiles

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or excuse me, do you not

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know that you are the temple of God

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and that the spirit of God dwells in you?

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If anyone defiles the temple of God,

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God will destroy

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him for the temple of God is holy

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which temple you are.

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Let no one deceive himself if

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anyone among you seems to be wise

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in this age, let him become

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a fool that he may become wise.

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You can keep reading and I hope

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you do, but let me tell you, we've got

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preachers or reverends or whatever

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they're called who are saying

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that abortion is Jesus's gift to the

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world.

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Y'all haven't heard that?

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No.

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Well your pastors watch the news, I know

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that.

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But people believe that now.

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They believe God just wants them

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happy that love means you're

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just happy.

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These are the philosophies

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of men, yeah?

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It sure is the laodicean age.

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So 2 Corinthians

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13

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5

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says examine

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yourselves

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to see that you are still in

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the faith. What does it mean?

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Faith is always anchored

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to Christ. Are you still needing

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him? Is he still your requirement?

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This is what it's about. Is he still your

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requirement? Even after you've been saved

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35 years, do you still need him

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like you did the first day you got saved?

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If you go intellectually

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yes, but

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it's

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okay. Go before

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him and say I want

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a fresh appetite.

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I want to desire you again.

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I want to be on fire for you again.

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He will

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answer you, knock and keep on

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knocking, seek and keep on

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seeking.

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So the laodiceans found themselves

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at a place where they no longer needed

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to Jesus. Imagine their shock

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because they were

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a church. And the one

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that they were standing for supposedly was

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not pleased.

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Your faith

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like the first song we sang

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the enemy's coming for your faith.

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And in this age, the age of

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ease, the age of AI, which there's good

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things with that too, the enemy

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is coming for your faith.

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He doesn't want you to need Jesus.

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He wants to make it so easy, so

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fast, so personalized

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to you. He wants you to be

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a consumer.

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Consume, consume, consume,

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consume, consume.

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Prophet

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Brian said that Netflix has done more

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to wreck prayer lives than anything else.

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Right?

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It's the consumer

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age. That's what they call it.

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He's after your faith.

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Hold your faith

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precious more than

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anything else. Here's my last

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little story I really legit am done.

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For real.

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Billy Graham. Y'all know him?

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And I know there have been

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controversy on Billy Graham

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online. Oh, he was at 33rd

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degree Mason. Well, I tell you what,

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that Mason brought more people to Jesus Christ

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than anybody else. Praise God.

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I don't care what he was.

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He preached the gospel everywhere he went.

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I don't know what Bill and Hillary

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are up to, but I know one thing

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they heard about Jesus.

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I

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watched that man preach

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salvation at the White House

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in front of Nancy Pelosi.

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I don't know what she did with it,

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but they have come on heard the truth.

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Billy Graham

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put up with the scrutiny.

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Did y'all know that he would leave his wife

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sometimes seven months of the year

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to tour the world to preach the

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gospel? Talk about a man

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with a revelation of surrender.

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But he was friends with Charles

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Templeton. Charles Templeton

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was around before he was, and he was

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considered potentially to be

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the next greatest evangelist. They were

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best friends.

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You know what happened to Charlie?

01:02:02.540 --> 01:02:04.220
He started listening

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to doubt.

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He started struggling with questions like

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if God is good, why is there evil in the world?

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What happened in World War II

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and the Jewish people? All the different things.

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And he slowly talked himself out of Jesus

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to the place where he

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resigned his position to his church.

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He was taken on as an intellectual

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at an Ivy League college.

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And he berated

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listen, he wasn't just satisfied

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with leaving God. He wanted

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Billy Graham to lose his faith too.

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And so he went

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after him, trying to cause him

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to doubt God and the word

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of God. And Billy had

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a crisis of faith. Did you know that?

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His mama gave him a pep talk

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and then he went out in the woods

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and he cried out to God and God

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spoke to him. And you know what he said?

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It's all

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about faith.

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I just believe.

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I don't

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have to know everything. I'm here

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to tell people of the love of Jesus Christ

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and that they can be saved. That's all

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I need to know. And he went on

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to impact the world tremendously.

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Charles Templeton

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when he was at the end of his life

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on his deathbed

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he cried. And you know what he said?

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Because he was an atheist.

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And he said, I

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miss Jesus.

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But he

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had decided

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that Jesus was the greatest

01:03:31.050 --> 01:03:33.170
teacher. But he wasn't

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the son of God.

01:03:35.810 --> 01:03:37.190
He said, I miss

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Jesus. You can't know

01:03:38.710 --> 01:03:41.010
a great teacher from 2,000 years

01:03:41.010 --> 01:03:41.370
ago.

01:03:43.670 --> 01:03:45.050
But you can know the son

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of God at any time.

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He left him.

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And I don't sadly have any confidence

01:03:50.750 --> 01:03:51.690
that he's in heaven.

01:03:52.730 --> 01:03:55.110
I cried and cried and cried

01:03:56.050 --> 01:03:57.130
because he gave

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up the preciousness of his faith

01:03:59.790 --> 01:04:00.970
in order to

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have worldly wisdom.

01:04:04.030 --> 01:04:05.430
The Laodicean

01:04:05.430 --> 01:04:05.810
church

01:04:05.810 --> 01:04:08.890
is one that had worldly wisdom

01:04:08.890 --> 01:04:11.290
who no longer needed Jesus.

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I implore you

01:04:12.990 --> 01:04:13.530
tonight

01:04:13.530 --> 01:04:16.530
to have a fresh love

01:04:16.530 --> 01:04:18.090
in appreciation

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not for all your charismatic gifts

01:04:21.110 --> 01:04:23.290
or your incredible revelation

01:04:23.290 --> 01:04:25.010
or all the things that he's gifted

01:04:25.010 --> 01:04:26.510
the church with to do the work.

01:04:27.310 --> 01:04:28.890
But a fresh revelation

01:04:28.890 --> 01:04:31.430
of gratitude that our souls are saved.

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And we have faith

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in Jesus Christ.

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Amen.